Learn · Introduction To Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 3 of 36Week 1: Entropy and Saddle point
Lec 3: Method of steepest descent
Prof. Girish S. Setlur · IIT Guwahati
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All the lectures
- Lec 1: Prerequisites and Introduction
- Lec 2: Combinatorics and Entropy
- Lec 3: Method of steepest descent
- Lec 4: Bose and Fermi gases
- Lec 5: Maxwell Boltzmann distribution
- Lec 6: Thermodynamic potentials
- Lec 7: Legendre transformation
- Lec 8: Specific heats of quantum gases
- Lec 9: Low and high temperature equations of state
- Lec 10: Chandrasekhar Limit
- Lec 11: Radiation thermodynamics
- Lec 12: Thermodyamics of black holes
- Lec 13: Van der Waals fluid
- Lec 14: Landau Diamagnetism
- Lec 15: Relations between ensembles and Pauli paramagnetism
- Lec 16:- Ferromagnetism
- Lec 17:- Correlations and Mean Field
- Lec 18: Theories of Specific Heat of Solids
- Lec 19: Tutorial I
- Lec 20:- Tutorial-II
- Lec 21:- Tutorial-III
- Lec 22:- Tutorial-IV
- Lec 23:- Tutorial-V
- Lec 24:- RG method Ising model
- Lec 25:- Introduction to Second Quantisation: Harmonic Oscillator
- Lec 26:- Quantum Theory of EM Field- I
- Lec 27:- Quantum Theory of EM Field- II
- Lec 28:- Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space- I
- Lec 29:- Creation and Annihilation in Fock Space- II
- Lec 30:- Green functions in many particle systems
- Lec 31:- Second quantised hamiltonians
- Lec 32:- Current algebra
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